The word "revenge" was sprayed over this car in an Arab-Jewish community near JerusalemAhmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty

Hugh Tomlinson

Published at 12:01AM, June 12 2012

Police in Israel have blamed ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists after graffiti
thanking Adolf Hitler for the Holocaust was sprayed on the Yad Vashem
memorial in Jerusalem, sparking outrage.

“Hitler, thank you for the wonderful Holocaust you organised for us. Only
because of you we received a state,” was one of several slogans discovered
today, spray-painted in Hebrew around the memorial courtyard dedicated to
victims of the Final Solution.

The vandals painted slogans denouncing Zionism at the site, prompting police
to blame a fringe group of Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox Jews, who bitterly
oppose the existence of the modern state of Israel.